Week 2 Journal

  A recap of my response paper...

   Our youth are almost entirely educated through the use of the internet. Smartboards, iPads, and Chromebooks are commonly used in the classroom, and many districts had already switched to allowing students to submit the majority of their work to Google Classroom. For a large portion of their education, children are  reading digitally. That is how our world works today; our world is changing, and education should change with it. "Next year, for the first time, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which administers reading, math, and science tests to a sample of 15-year-old students in more than 50 countries, will add an electronic reading component. Among other countries, the United States will not participate." (Rich, 2008, pg. 10) Countries all over the world are beginning to incorporate digital reading into their testing, attempting to make their education more relevant to how students are raised and taught in today's technological world. Everyone, including educators, is dependent on technology, and it is now an integral part of everyone's life. To make the tests accessible to all students, the department of education should really be working to develop and revamping their testing to maintain pace with generational changes.

    Students may benefit from seamless differentiation when reading on technology. Text can be made larger or smaller, or text can be read to students, along with many other things. Reading on a device is easier and less frustrating for students with dyslexia than reading print (Rich, 2008, pg. 2). Depending on who you ask, digital literature has many advantages and disadvantages. People are exposed to more vocabulary and reading opportunities through digital reading and the internet than they realize. Despite the fact that the quality of publications varies greatly when using technology, it is a good replacement than watching tv. Books are awesome works of literature, but most of them can now be downloaded to our smartphones or tablets. My response paper also mentioned my own personal experience with literature and how technology has been such a large piece of everyone's life especially since COVID.

Citations:

Rich, M. (2008, July 27). Literacy debate: Online, R U really reading? The New York Times. Retrieved January 29, 2023, from https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html